# Schmelz v. Monroe County

> Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · February 19, 1992 · 954 F.2d 1540

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8996808

## Case

- **Full name:** Robert SCHMELZ, as Guardian of the incompetent James Michael Schmelz v. MONROE COUNTY, a Political Subdivision of Florida, Sheriff J. Allison Defoor, II, Jody Baker and Jeffrey Koppin
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- **Decided:** February 19, 1992
- **Citations:** 954 F.2d 1540; 1992 WL 28206
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Clark
- **Judges:** Clark, Fay, Henderson
- **Cited by:** 43 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8996808

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- finding no deliberate indifference when officers failed to remove a blanket as part of a suicide watch, even though the detainee had previously requested to see the jail psychologist, because such conduct “can be characterized at best as mere negligence”
- concluding no personal liability for Sheriff who instituted facially constitutional policy

## Opinion text

CLARK, Senior Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the result only.

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